Word: en
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retaliatory income tax evasion suits against the Longster tribe. By last week all that was changed. The President and his son were whisked away to Antoine's, famed old restaurant in the Vieux Carre, to eat Proprietor Roy Alciatore's specialties: oysters Rockefeller and Pompano en papillate. Only a small company were present, for too many Longsters might have spoiled Louisiana's new era political soup...
...visitors on hand for the Coronation bustled out to Windsor to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics, to cheer wildly as King George, Queen Elizabeth and most of the Royal Family wound out of the main gate of the Castle en route to a grassy slope nearby on the river Thames...
...procession. Thousands of others rose from their beds while it was still dark, turned out to get a better idea of what happens when a British monarch is crowned than most of them will get on the day of the ceremony. At 6:16 a.m. the procession moved off en route for Westminster Abbey. As the four-ton gilded coach, similar to that in which King George & Queen Elizabeth will ride, rolled along behind eight horses with its Household Cavalry escort, policemen and soldiers snapped their heels to attention. Outside the Abbey, the procession halted while an imaginary Coronation service...
...Boylston Competition, held annually en Paine Hall of the Music Building, is the oldest collegiate elocution contest in the United States. The Lee Wade prize was established later with the stipulation that it be called the first prize of the evening...
...Instead an Intourist tourist must go all the way back up to Kharkov and then down to Rostov. The Intourist tourist may ask why, but never finds a Russian who seems to know. Ambassador Davies did not have to make this senseless detour, was routed direct. En route he dictated his impressions for transmission later to the State Department, cracked jokes and told Washington yarns in the vein of his good friend Jim Farley. Every winter since anyone can remember the Five-Year Plans, it has happened at Rostov that "snow is delaying car loadings." Last week there was about...